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Students and staff mingle at the Department of Latino/Latina Studies open house at 1207 W. Oregon St. on Wednesday to learn more about courses offered through the University’s Latino/Latina Studies program.

Hacking your smartwatches Grad students say smartwatch is security risk

BY IMOGEN LINDSLEY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

As smartwatches begin to make their presence on the global market, Illinois Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers discovered the devices’ Achilles’ heel: the accumulation of sensor data poses a security threat to users.

Upon tracing the consumer trend of increased purchasing of smartwatches, He Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in engineering, began to wonder, “If there are a lot of good things smartwatches can bring to our lives, what are the bad parts they could bring?”

Wang, along with Romit Roy Choudhury, an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, and Ted Tsung-Te Lai , Choudhury’s postdoc-

as the goal,” said Dr. Laura DeThorne, speech and hearing sciences professor.

“And so one of the things I hope that comes from these courses is a reorientation on learning for learning’s

BY VIVIENNE HENNING sake and how to apply (that CONTRIBUTING WRITER knowledge) to real world Students who prefer non- issues.” traditional classrooms may The courses would allow have found an outlet in new students to learn from courses interacoffered by tive expethe Colr i e n c e le ge of opportuLAS. nities, as T h e wel l as “Grand e n a ble Challenge students to partake Experiin classes e n c e , ” that would or G CE , help them courses TERRI WEISSMAN pursue a re t he ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR a specifproduct of a group ic topic of of fa c i nterest, ulty and staff members, while receiving general who chose topics based education credit.

While there are currenton what they felt refl ected what was current and ly six GCE courses debutimportant for students to ing this semester, the prolearn about. The courses gram will be expanded for are separated into three the spring semester as 25 pathways: Sustainability; new courses will be offered Energy and the Environ- to students interested in ment; Inequality and Cul- the interactive learning tural Understanding; and experience.

Health and Wellness.

“These general educa“Our education system tion courses are focused tends to facilitate a mind set of getting good grades SEE CHALLENGE | 3A

“These (GCE) courses are a more hands-on, more personal experience with the coursework.”

Courses offered in pilot Grand Challenge Course Program The College of LAS will offer six hands-on courses in three areas of study ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF HE WANG

Apps can track a smartwatch’s location. The dots are the moments when the user pressed a key. By creating an app, University students figured out how to see what you’re typing. toral researcher, have concluded from their research that the smartwatch, which currently records 200 sensor samples per second, poses a security threat to wearers.

“(Gathering sensor data) is quite easy because a lot of apps on the App Store say an app is for counting the calories burned. Download the app and the app uses sensors to count your

steps. On the back of this, hackers can gather sensors and infer what the user is typing,” Wang said.

To test their theory,

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Health & Wellness

- Stress and Health in Urban

Communities - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Science: What's Autism Got to Do With It?

Sustainability, Energy & the Environment - Sustainable Design across the Disciplines - Fictions of Sustainability: Food, Water, Energy

Inequality & Cultural Understanding - Documenting Inequality - Cultures of Debt

Star of ‘Catfish’ to lecture students on online relationships

BY DANIEL CORRY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Years ago, Nev Schulman believed he was in a relationship with a 19-year-old woman. When the couple fi nally met in person, Schulman learned the person he had been talking to online was actually a 40-year-old mother.

Schulman was “cat-

fished,” an experience that led him to create his own TV show and will be the topic of his lecture at the University Thursday.

A “catfi sh” is a person who uses social media to pretend they are someone else, particularly to spark romances, according to Schulman’s website. Schulman’s show, “Catfish: The

TV Show,” centers around people who seek to meet their loved ones in real life.

Filming for the show began in November 2012.

The origin of Catfish comes from people transporting cod from Alaska to China, according to the website. To keep the cod moving and alive on the trip, fishermen would put catfish in the

tanks with the cod to keep them nipping at the fi ns of the cod to keep them moving. These online impersonators serve as the catfish in people’s lives, always keeping people on their toes.

When Schulman isn’t fi lming “Catfish”, he is also giving lectures, such as his Thursday appearance at the Illini Union. This event is

one of many hosted by the Illini Union Board. The board is the largest programming board on campus and is completely student oriented, said Yuka Wada, director of enriching programs on the board.

She said inviting Schulman to speak was “com-

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“He learned from his experience and is now helping others.”

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A closer look at 14th Amendment

Altgeld Ringers hold fundraiser

Illini trying to stripe the stadium

Racial injustice still an issue under Equal Protection Clause

Altgeld bells become jukebox for community to raise money

Football set for nonconference finale against Middle Tennessee

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University Q Theft was reported at Campus Recreation Center East, 1102 E. Gregory Drive, around 4 p.m.

Tuesday.

According to the report,

a student reported $15 was stolen from his wallet, which was in an unsecured locker.

Q Theft was reported at Daniels Hall, 1010 W. Green St., around 9 p.m. Saturday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole a student’s bicycle that was locked to a rack. The bicycle has an estimated value

of $100.

Urbana Q Forgery was reported at Murphy’s Gas Station, 110 S. High Cross Road, around 8 a.m. Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender paid for items with counterfeit currency.

Q Criminal damage to property was reported in the 200 block of West Main Street around 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday.

According to the report, an unknown offender spray painted graffiti on the victim’s business building.

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Historically black colleges get White House attention

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WASHINGTON — Shaw University senior Bryann Guyton spent the first half of her week in the nation’s capital as an “all-star,� but it had nothing to do with sports.

Guyton, a business administration major and studentathlete at the historically black school in Raleigh, N.C., instead was among the 83 White House-selected student leaders and scholars involved in an Obama administration initiative to promote and advance Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

The Conference, “HBCUs: Innovators for Future Success,� also brought together university presidents, various government officials and corporate leaders to develop opportunities for collaborations, primarily on the STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “(HBCUs) are the backbone of the nation,� said Sedika Franklin, with the White House Initiative on HBCUs. “We educate so many young minds — and we are looking to them as the future inventors and entrepreneurs.�

The conference shares the administration’s goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020 and to lead the field in the STEM subjects, she said.

Guyton was one of 12 “allstars� — student ambassadors chosen to promote the

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program — from North Carolina, who joined others from around the country for the three-day event. “It’s definitely fun,� she said Tuesday. “There’s a lot of personalities.�

Guyton said that she enjoyed hearing speakers like Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, president and dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine , the first African-American woman to lead a medical school, and actor Lamman Rucker.

Shaw University President Dr. Tashni-Ann Dubroy said the conference was a valuable opportunity for Guyton, but also for their “little old school in the South,� which she said can

sometimes feel forgotten. “I want to ensure that I’m opening opportunities for our students to work in D.C., to be employed in government and to bring an additional revenue stream to the university,� Dubroy said.

The conference came at a critical time for HBCUs, Dubroy said, as falling revenue and declining enrollments have triggered questions about their continued relevance. After a federal change in loan criteria in 2011, HBCU enrollment dropped by 14 percent, according to the Post-Secondary National Policy Institutes report on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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the same challenges, as well as low attrition rates and little access to capital. Graduation rates at HBCUs are around 30 percent — though they are 22 percent higher when compared to the national average for African-Americans, according to the Post-Secondary National Policy Institute.

But Dubroy insisted that schools like Shaw continue to serve a valuable purpose. “We provide a very nurturing space where classroom sizes are generally smaller, where students can see role models that look like them, where they can have a dream and the audacity to achieve it,� she said. “We also provide access to a diverse workforce.�

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Women’s pay stays unequal

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The students will be Catholic Newman Center to Philadelphia Saturday to accompanied by two priests attend a mass given by Pope and five campus missionaries Francis at the Cathedral from the University. LaMontagne said Basilica of the stuSts. Peter and Paul. dents will The stube staying dents will in a campalso attend g rou nd an event at with stuthe Indedents from JENNIFER LAMONTAGNE pendence other camNEWMAN STAFF Mall later puses and Saturday. are paying Jennitheir own fer LaMontagne, Newman way.

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CHALLENGE on topics of interest and importance, built along with an experiential model of education. As well as that, these courses in a way, give back and help the community with the awareness that they raise,” said Terri Weissman, associate professor in art history.

“These Grand Challenge Experience courses are a more hands-on, more personal experience with the coursework.”

One goal for the courses is that its experimental aspect would enable students to consider situations from different points of view that they might not be able to consider and conceptualize without the knowledge and experience from others.

Matt Hill, junior in LAS,

said he thinks the topics were selected for the courses represent what millennials feel are most important to address.

“It’s cool that they’re i nc o r p o r at i n g these speci fic topics i nto undergraduate education because people always say we’re millennials, we’re the future,” he said. “It’s a really innovative and effective way to solve whatever challenges arise in these topics.”

One of the topics addressed through the GCE program is autism.

DeThorne is currently teaching “Interdisciplinary Appro aches to L i fe Services: What’s Autism Got to Do With It?” as part of the Health and Wellness pathway.

“We’re also exploring what fi rst- person perspectives are; directly asking individuals with

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Working women in Illinois will not achieve equal pay for 50 years.

A recent study published by “The Status of Women in the States” and released by the Washington-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research, IWPR, in May found women and men will earn the same wage by 2065.

The study approximated when each state will have equal pay if all trends remain the same.

Julie A nderson, a research associate at IWPR, said the institute conducted the study with the intent to bring about policy change.

“Projections garner a lot of interest,” she said. “They capture the imagination more.”

Anderson said the answer to why it will take such a long time for women to achieve equal pay is a complex one.

“In the mid-20th century women began going into the workforce quickly.

Men’s wages went up and women’s wages remained stagnant,” she said. “Due to many complex economic factors, for example not having affordable childcare, paid maternity leave or paid sick leave, it is especially difficult for women to stay in the workforce.”

The wage gap especially affects younger, educated women. In Anderson’s findings, women working certain fields can have a whole degree higher than their male counterparts and still earn less money overall.

These conditions will especially affect female University students as they enter the working world after graduation.

“I think it’s ridiculous,” said Adriana Casali, freshman. “Women deserve equal pay for equal work.”

Among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, in 2038, Florida will be the first location where men and women will have equal

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Wyoming is predicted to be the last state to reach equal pay in 2159, according to the study.

“I’m glad they’re informing people about this,” said Samantha George, junior. “But it is frustrating that it will take

so long.”

Anderson hopes the concerns brought up by the results of this study will encourage women in the U.S. to take action. “(The statistics) can be a motivating factor,” she said.

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nothing else, just to see the celebrity.

“I‘m mostly just excited to see Nev in person,” Jenkins said. “I’ve been watching Catfish since the first season aired. It’s very nice that he learned from his experience and now he’s helping others.”

In addition to Schulman’s personal experience to pull from, he also released his first full book titled “In Real Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age” in September 2014.

The book covers what drives people to “catfish” others, why people fall for them, how people can avoid being fooled, guidelines for dating — both online and in-person — how to connect genuinely with other people over the web and how to turn an online relationship into a real-life relationship.

Schulman, along with his friend Max Joseph, are currently filming the fifth season of their MTV show “Catfish,” where they help others who have become caught up in possible fake online relationships.

Students can attend Shulman’s lecture at 7 p.m.

Thursday in the I-Room of the Illini Union. Admission is free.

CATFISH pletely student demand.”

She said the board thinks it’s important they listen to students and plan events that are always “a great fit for students.”

Wada also stressed the importance of “(taking) the opportunity of the free lecture and growing in their own minds.”

Among 18 to 24-yearolds, one in four has online dated, and one in two has a “friend” who has online dated, according to the website. Wada said because students often attend events focused on their own major, she thought of this lecture as a way to find a “great ‘out of major’ friend group.”

Yasmine Gordon, freshman, thinks Schulman talking about the changes in dating as well as the dangers of online dating is beneficial to students.

“It’s important that people are aware of what can happen in an online dating situation,” she said. “While there are always dangers, there is something good coming out of it. (The lecture) just teaches us to be cautious.”

Maranda Jenkins, freshman, is also eagerly anticipating the lecture, if for autism what it’s like to be autistic, what they would like from their communities, and where they feel like research needs to go,” she said, “People are very proud to be autistic and wouldn’t want to change that about themselves, and I think that’s a part of the story that doesn’t get told a lot.”

That’s why, DeThorne said, she is focused on taking a hands-on approach to learning, taking her students on field trips to directly speak with autistic individuals and expanding learning beyond the confines of a classroom.

“We all tend to get entrenched in particular perspectives or ideologies, be it disciplinary, be it political, and I think we need to actively engage in the complexity of real world issues. And that i nvolves c onsider i ng

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dcorry2@illinimedia. multiple perspectives,” she said. “So these courses are also intended to bring interdisciplinary perspective from multiple perspectives.”

Weissman, who teaches “Documenting Inequality” within the Inequality and Cultural Understanding pathway of GCE, believes that talking to others is where learning really occurs, she said.

“Empathy develops in the classroom about where people are coming from,” Weissman said, explaining her c ol laborative, discussion-based teaching style, “Not everyone is from the same place, and the students gain a larger understanding and start to understand that inequality affects them and has a very real impact on their own lives.”

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Pope Francis visits Washington TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Pope Francis opened his unprecedented conversation with the United States on Wednesday by shrewdly contrasting the pomp of his grand Washington welcome with a political message conveyed in a pastor’s gentle tone: The time has come to preserve the planet.

The opening tableau of his five-day visit to the U.S. showed Francis in all his paradoxical glory, the church patriarch with the demeanor of a lowly pastor who also possesses an ambitious drive to influence world leaders. He called for a society that is “truly tolerant and inclusive” and rejects unjust discrimination — phrases with resonance for the political left in the U.S. Yet Francis countered those remarks with words clearly intended to reassure religious conservatives. He spoke of the importance of “safeguard-

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Two journalists freed in Egypt after presidential pardon CAIRO — Two Al-Jazeera journalists were released from prison on Wednesday following a pardon from Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in a case that drew worldwide condemnation.

Canadian-Egyptian AlJazeera journalist Mohammed Fahmy and the Qatari network’s Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed were among 100 prisoners — including pro-democracy activists — who were pardoned, according to a presidential statement.

“Fahmy is now at home.

His colleague Baher Mohammed has also left the prison accompanied by his family,” said Fahmy’s wife, Marwa Omara.

The pardons, marking the Islamic holiday of Eid alAdha, are the first to include prominent figures caught up

in Egypt’s crackdown on dissent since el-Sissi, then head of the armed forces, ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi two years ago.

Fahmy, Mohammed and Australian journalist Peter Greste were arrested in late 2013 and charged with publishing false news and collaborating with Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, which has been banned as a terrorist organization.

They were sentenced to seven years imprisonment on those charges in an initial trial last year. Observers at the trial said that no concrete evidence in support of the allegations had been heard in court sessions open to the press.

The convictions were overturned on appeal and the journalists were jailed for three years after a retrial that concluded last month.

Michigan militia group disavows threat to Stabenow WASHINGTON — If Jon Ritzheimer travels to Michigan trying to arrest Sen. Debbie Stabenow for treason because of her support for the Iran nuclear deal, he may find a line of volunteer militia men guarding the Michigan Democrat.

“This is wrong. It sounds like mob rule to me,” said Lou Vondette, of the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia, one of the oldest active militias in the state.

“We have no idea what this

guy has on his mind,” Vondette said in a phone interview. The threats sound “just as terrifying to (us), as to anyone reading the story.”

In a threatening letter making waves on the Internet, Ritzheimer alleges he has “strong ties with the Michigan State Militia” and plans to target Stabenow. “I have fellow Marines in the Michigan militia, who I’ve deployed with,” Ritzheimer said in a video related to the plot.

Costco shopper, 78, punched in fight over waffle samples LOS ANGELES — A Burbank, Calif., man was charged Tuesday with punching a 78-year-old Costco shopper who confronted him about taking too many Nutella waffles from a sample cart, authorities said.

Derrick Gharabighi, 24, was at the warehouse store in Burbank on Sunday when he walked over to the Nutella sample station. As the elderly shopper reached out to grab one, Gharabighi snatched all the Nutella samples, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

“The victim told Mr. Gharabighi that he wanted a sample and he shouldn’t

take so many,” Burbank police Sgt. Claudio Losacco said.

That’s when Gharabighi reportedly punched the man in the face. The man was hospitalized with a 1-inch cut and swelling above his left eye.

Gharabighi, a Burbank resident, was arrested and is being held on $50,000 bail, police said.

He faces one count of elder abuse, as well as the special allegation that he inflicted great bodily harm on the elderly man, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

If Gharabighi is convicted, he faces up to 11 years in state prison.

Government debt limit fight called credit rating risk

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Pope Francis is greeted with cheering crowds as he arrives shortly after 4 p.m. to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. ing the rights of individuals and communities,” and of building a society that respects “rights to religious liberty.”

And with Obama, a supporter of gay marriage, just a few feet away, Francis alluded to his belief in traditional unions, saying

he will “support the institutions of marriage and the family at this, a critical moment in the history of our civilization.”

WASHINGTON — A federal government shutdown would not pose an immediate risk to the nation’s AAA credit rating, but could endanger it if the fight spills over into a debt limit impasse, Fitch Ratings said Wednesday.

Congressional Republicans want to strip funding from Planned Parenthood, a move opposed by the Obama administration, putting a budget bill at risk as the Sept. 30 fiscal year deadline approaches.

Fitch, one of the three leading credit rating companies, said the October 2013 partial government shutdown didn’t trigger a

change in the U.S. rating.

And a similar short-term shutdown “would not have a direct impact” on the rating this fall, the company said.

“Its main implication for the U.S.’s sovereign creditworthiness would depend on whether it foreshadowed a destabilization of U.S. budget policymaking, including brinkmanship over the federal debt limit,” Fitch warned.

The U.S. hit its $18.1 trillion debt limit in March and the Treasury Department has been using accounting maneuvers since then to extend the nation’s borrowing ability.

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EDITORIAL Ringing support for Altgeld Hall

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a school with no mascot, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard enough to not have a symbol on campus.

When Chief Illiniwek danced for the last time in 2007, fans and the community lost a figurehead for not just the athletics department, but also the University.

Which is why Altgeld Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fundraiser this coming Saturday is more crucial than ever. Landmarks such as Altgeld, the Alma Mater, Foellinger Auditorium and the Illini Union are strangely the faces of our University, staples that spring to mind when people think about our school.

The state of the current administration has provided a great deal of questions and concerns

for the University community and for alumni of any year.

Yet, for those alumni, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the creaky floorboards of the Union, the lack of air conditioning in Noyes, and most importantly the chimes of Altgeldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bells that still ring through their heads.

At 118 years old, Altgeld Hall still stands on campus after two world wars and 17 University presidents. The building still looms over the Main Quad, which, at the time Altgeld was built only featured a few others, like the Natural History Building and Harker Hall.

For some context â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Alma Mater is 86 years old. Foellinger Auditorium is 108 years old. Davenport Hall is the closest at 116 years old.

The Union is 75 years

old. Its age and history makes it a crucial part of the campus, but it also means the building is desperate for renovations.

From the building to the actual supplies within itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the most used and, in turn, in need of construction and care.

And as construction continues to grow across campus, the University is still looking for funds to work on one of campusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most prominent and eldest figureheads.

Altgeldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jukebox this weekend is not just an innovative way of showcasing one of our proudest establishments, but also honors the building by what it and Chimesmaster Sue Wood do best. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a specific playlist in mind, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited to

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The chime in the Altgeld Hall bell tower will be played for a fundraiser this weekend. The chime was installed in the tower in 1920, 23 years after Altgeld Hall was built in 1897.

see some of the iconic (and probably ridiculous) songs that will be requested.

Altgeld hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always just been home to the Department of

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a student living at Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Hall, I have to ride the bus more often than your average student. And it is during these ten minutes of jolting around that I find myself mindlessly scrolling Twitter one day and maybe Facebook the next.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s starting to feel like no matter where I turn, another one of my friends has shared an article ridiculing the amount of time Millennials spend on their phones. You know the typical claims: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your smartphone is ruining your life,â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your cell is depleting the quality in human interaction.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m often dejected at what these journalists are trying to say as I am scrolling through a newsfeed instead of engaging in conversation with the people around me.

At parties, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see faces lit up in dark rooms as girls and guys alike write in their GroupMe conversations or scroll Instagram rather than socialize with the people they are with. We are a generation that is used to having the whole world at our fingertips in a small device that fits right inside our pockets. It is easy to be tempted into always playing with the infinite amount of information you can gather on your phone, but this factor could be enough to drive someone to believe that our phones are the enemy.

Then I remember that a big way my younger sib-

lings and I communicate is through tagging each other on shared articles or texting each other funny links. It is always a quick way to say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I miss you and this reminded me of you.â&#x20AC;?

People come from all around the world to attend the University; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge school with a diverse population of students whose hometowns range from China to small, Chicago suburbs to even here in Urbana or Champaign. All of these students have friends and family back home with whom they wish to continue a relationship.

Hayley Nagelberg, freshman in ACES, explains how an app on her phone helps her communicate with loved ones from her home in Israel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I downloaded Whatsapp because our texts in America donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t send to Israel unless youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re (connected) to Wifi ... Whatsapp helps me communicate with my Israeli friends from here.â&#x20AC;?

Smartphones have awesome apps that can help you become the greatest, best friend you want to be, even from far away. You and a friend could both download the same game and play each other when you cannot be together. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m by myself, I love to use my phone for Skype and Facebook messenger to contact my family and friends that are all over the world,â&#x20AC;? says Mike Schreiber, a professional working for Illini Hillel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is amazing that social media has given the resources to connect with people; however, when I am with people I choose to interact with them.â&#x20AC;?

Our phones can be addicting if used incorrectly, or

rather profusely, but they also can be tools in a world where your loved onesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; homes and calendars donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t align with yours.

My sister, brother and I all have very different schedules. While both of them are high school students who can actually afford to sleep, I am a college freshman with nothing but empty coffee cups and those weird caffeinated chocolate bar wrappers in my garbage can.

Despite our unique schedules, we can continue our relationship in a way that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t possible without our smartphones.

Texting, Skype, Snapchat and Facebook have all been important, if not critical, parts of my relationships during my first month at school. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not implying that a phone can duplicate conversations that could happen in real life given that it was possible. However, in cases where your friends and family arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t with you, phones give you a creative way to communicate more efficiently.

So when I watch the next trendy video like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look Up!â&#x20AC;? (a 5-minute film urging people to unplug) I will say: â&#x20AC;&#x153;OK, right after I send a picture of this pug with a funnel on its head to my friend, Ricky. After all, he lives 4 hours away.â&#x20AC;?

Nothing will make me feel as close to the people at home then a quick weekend visit, but until then, I am going to meaningfully use my resources to send them reminders that I miss and love them.

Leah is a freshman in Media. opinions@dailyillini.com

bell tower that continues to watch over our campus and us students, and we hope it can continue to stand for at least another 118 years.

Reinterpreting the 14th Amendment ALEX SWANSON

Smartphones spread long-distance love

Mathematics and a campus post office; it began as the University library then the College of Law. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s constantly the iconic tiled, pointed

professor of mine recently reminded me that we belong to one of the first few American generations to exist separately from either slavery or mandated segregation. The struggle for civil rights is not at all farremoved from our time.

Here is where I should suggest that while racial groups are declared equal by law, they do not enjoy equal treatment. But I cannot even cling to whatever miniscule amount of equality may have been suggested from such a statement.

A recent paper co-authored

by University Law Professor Robin Kar makes that apparent.

Kar illuminates a glaring issue regarding the manner in which the Supreme Court currently interprets the Equal Protection Clause. As it stands, it does not protect against governmental acts that unintentionally lead to discrimination. Yet, we well know that a vast amount of discriminatory acts are completed totally unaware of the prejudice that propels them.

Karâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paper, co-authored with John Lindo of the University of Chicago and titled, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Race and the Law in the Genomic Age: A Problem for Equal Treatment Under the Law,â&#x20AC;? asserts that an acceptance of folk biology far too frequently seeps under our consciousness. This process results in our categorization of a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race based on sight and subsequent assumption they must hold heritable characteristics specific to that race.

This unconscious classification generates devastating disparities, the most relevant of which is perhaps the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Lives Matterâ&#x20AC;? movement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When people say that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Black Lives Matter,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; they are speaking out against deaths caused by law enforcement officers (of all races) who often accept folk biological categories [such as] race and are systematically inclined to show through their actions that black lives matter less than other lives,â&#x20AC;? Kar wrote in an email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not a conscious belief, but the psy-

chological and behavioral facts that cause this problem cannot merely be wished away.â&#x20AC;?

Regardless of intent, it is impossible to justify an interpretation of the Constitution that cannot protect against a pattern of racially charged murders committed by government authorities.

For just a moment, setting aside the issue of Constitutional intent, the disconcerting and minute degree at which discrimination can creep into our judgement extends beyond the basis of race.

Unintentional bias exists even at the lexical level, and therefore pervades our most basic forms of communication. This is supported by the SapirWhorf hypothesis, a theory that states that our language use affects the way we interpret our world.

For example, in English, we have no gender-neutral pronoun, and therefore must utilize t he domi na nt masculine pronoun.

Correspond i ngly, women are classified i n accordance with marital status as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mrs.,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ms.,â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153; M i s s â&#x20AC;? w h i l e men a re refer red to as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr.â&#x20AC;?

These societal habits are like ly doubly unconscious and prejudicial.

While unintentional bias certainly stretches beyond the boundaries of racial relations to issues of religion, gender, sexuality, etc., the debate in regard to the Equal Protection Clause is intimately tied to race at this particular historical moment.

At this time, we are grappling with a revolving case of police officers, to whom the state has entrusted authority, killing black citizens. This is not the time in which the interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause, which is designed to protect citizens from that same state authority, can afford to be mediocre.

Kar and Lindo are correct in their advocacy for a better-serving interpretation of the Clause, one that affords legitimate equal protection.

They further rightly recommend an increased integration effort through affirmative action. The paper reviews the multitude of strategies our society has attempted to employ regarding race relations; including celebrating diversity; lessening poverty; investing in schools, color-blindness, etc.

However, Kar and Lindo assert that all these solutions are â&#x20AC;&#x153;limited, however, insofar as they can coexist with de facto racial segregation.â&#x20AC;? Though we may reside a generation or two away from de jure segregation, we have not removed ourselves from segregation entirely.

And so, this all funnels into the question of what can be done to lessen the e x i s tence and potency of these unconscious biases.

The solution may lie, in part, in d e ve l o p ing acute personal awareness and the steady evaluation of our individual decisions.

Yet, on a m ac ro scale, the gover nment must play a larger role, as controversial as that sentence may be, in regulating equality. That effort could be expressed through public- opinion campaigns, redistribution of funds, increased affirmative action or a reinterpretation of the Constitution.

We need to be moving faster; America has spent over three centuries entrenched in a state of discrimination-related turbulence; heightened governmental support is essential to advance beyond it.

The debate in regard to the Equal Protection Clause is intimately tied to race at this particular historical moment.

Alex is a senior in LAS. amswans2@dailyillini. com

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CHICAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; At first glance, the basement gathering in downtown west suburban Woodstock seemed just like one of the 12-step meetings that take place thousands of times a day across America. Ten people dealing with alcoholism, drug addiction and other issues sat on stackable chairs and talked about how they were trying to keep their lives together.

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terone product, AndroGel, and Abbott Laboratories Inc., which owned AndroGel before spinning off AbbVie, both located in North Chicago.

They and several other companies are being sued by more than 2,000 men who have suffered heart attacks and strokes that they claim were caused by testosterone therapy.

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tudents going to their 1 p.m. class are treated to a free concert every day. They probably donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the name of the artist, but the Altgeld Ringers play familiar songs for the whole campus to hear.

But on Sept. 26 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Altgeld bells will become a jukebox, and for a $1 to $2 donation, anyone can request a song as part of a fundraiser for the bell tower. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think that because the tower is so visible and so representative of the University, we want to restore some of its beauty and its educational potential,â&#x20AC;? said Amy Liu, senior in FAA and one of the Altgeld Ringers, the official name of the chimesplayersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; registered student organization.

Improving the infrastructure, furniture and carpet in the tower are some of the fundraiserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you look at a video of the tower from the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the exact same thing,â&#x20AC;? Liu said.

Before Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s football game, Liu will be outside of Altgeld Hall, radioing requests up to players in the tower.

Griffin Jenkins, junior in FAA, and Cody Jones, junior in LAS, will take turns playing, depending on who knows the requested song.. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to do it on a Saturday to be able to play during the day,â&#x20AC;? Liu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping that gives us a pretty good turnout.â&#x20AC;?

Donators will be able to choose from about 150 songs, which the players arrange themselves. A Reddit poll helped narrow down more than 300 song options. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We realized â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Zeldaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was going to be very popular,â&#x20AC;? Liu said.

The monetary goal for the fundraiser is between $100 and $200, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an added benefit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main goal of the fundraiser is less about getting money for the tower and more about chime awareness,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins said.

Jenkins added that over half of the people who come to take tours have no idea that vol-

unteers play everything on the bells except the quarter hourly chimes, which are automated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to make the chimes a really big symbol of the University again since itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so visible and upfront and representative of University music,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins said.

Creating an RSO for the chimesplayers was part of the move toward awareness, since it unified the players and allowed them to fundraise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the past, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve sort of have been disjointed,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of us havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even met.â&#x20AC;?

There are typically 10 players every year, all with different skill levels. Musical experience isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a requirement for joining.

Jenkins joined as an instrumental performance major; Liu took a tour her freshman year and was so impressed that she had to be a part of it; and Jones, a percussionist, joined because â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun to make loud noises.â&#x20AC;?

The RSO will have its first meeting at 6 p.m., on Oct. 1 in Illini Union room 405 and anyone is welcome.

The chimes are an incomplete keyboard made to play â&#x20AC;&#x153;Illinois Loyalty,â&#x20AC;? and students must be approved by Chimesmaster Sue Wood before they can perform concerts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To become full-fledged, the initiation is to learn to play â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hail to the Orangeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins said.

The Illini theme is played every day before each concert, and the worn sheet music sits on a music stand next to the large wooden levers which make up the keyboard.

The RSO was also put in place to form a system of student leadership for running the tower. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very real possibility that, some time in the future, it will be completely run by the student organization,â&#x20AC;? Jones said.

Wood, who has run the tower for around 45 years, may be retiring in the near future, Liu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to set a new precedent. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to get the University a little more engaged with what we do,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The chimesmaster relationship will be changing.â&#x20AC;?

Students have played the chimes since the 1960s, since Albert Marion, who has a framed portrait in the tower, was chimesmaster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we have is character and music that evolves with the chimesplayers, because we can actually write music and play it on here,â&#x20AC;?

Liu said.

The players also try to involve the community. During Malaysian Independence Day, they learned the Malaysian national anthem and played it during their concert. Malaysian students recognized and told the players how great it was to hear, Liu said.

Having the chimes be entirely automated is the Altgeld Ringersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fear. Jones recalled Ohio Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bell tower, which sits empty for most of the year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the students care, if the students are aware of the fact that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people up here playing, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really care about the money, but if we have that moral support from the students then the administration would never let that happen,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Top right: Cody Jones, junior in LAS, plays the chime in Altgeld Hall on Saturday. Middle: The chime in the Altgeld Hall bell tower was installed in 1920 and is a gift from the classes of 1914 through 1921 and the U.S. School of Military Aeronautics. Lower center: The keys of the chime in the Altgeld Hall bell tower.

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TIMELINE BECKMAN Illinois hired Tim Beckman.

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DEC. 9, 2011 UCLA hired Mora to a five-year, $12 million contract.

NOV. 24, 2012

UCLA finished 9-3 overall record, 6-3 in the Pac-12.

NOV. 30, 2012

UCLA loses 27-24 to Stanford in the Pac12 Championship Game.

DEC. 27, 2012

UCLA loses 49-29 to Baylor in the Holiday Bowl.

Beckman signed the No. 41 recruiting class in the nation.

FEB. 6, 2013

Mora signed the No. 3 recruiting class in the nation.

Illinois finished with a 4-8 record, 1-7 in the Big Ten.

NOV. 30, 2013

UCLA finishes with a 9-3 record, 6-3 in the Pac-12.

DEC. 31, 2013

UCLA loses 42-12 to Virginia Tech in the Sun Bowl.

FEB. 5, 2014

UCLA signed the No. 20 recruiting class in the nation.

NOV. 28, 2014

UCLA finished with a 9-3 record, 6-3 in the Pac-12.

Illinois finished with 2-10 overall record, 0-8 in the Big Ten.

Illinois signed the No. 71 recruiting class in the nation

Illinois finished the season with a 6-6 record, 3-5 in the Big Ten.

NOV. 29, 2014

Illinois lost 35-18 to Louisiana Tech in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

DEC. 26, 2014 JAN. 2, 2015

UCLA defeated Kansas State 40-35 in the Alamo Bowl.

Illinois signed the No. 34 recruiting class in the nation.

FEB. 4, 2015

UCLA signed the No. 9 recruiting class in the nation.

Former Illinois player Simon Cvijanovic tweets allegations of player mistreatment against Beckman.

MAY 10, 2015

Athletic Director Mike Thomas fires Beckman after receiving preliminary findings of a playerabuse investigation.

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match that. The season created tension and was difficult to deal with for most players. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was rough, man,â&#x20AC;? Illinois running back Josh Ferguson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was probably the hardest football season Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever been a part of in my entire life.â&#x20AC;?

Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; next two season featured progress, with records of 4-8 and 6-6, respectively, and a bowl appearance, but ultimately, the poor performance on the field didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t end Beckmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time at Illinois.

He was fired a week before the start of this season after preliminary investigation findings showed Beckman had committed player mistreatment, confirming allegations made by former offensive lineman Simon Cvijanovic via Twitter in May. Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; future remains uncertain.

The Illini will play out the remainder of the season with interim coach Bill Cubit and search for a future coach at the end of the season.

Almost three and a half years after the bowl win, the team finds itself in almost an identical situation as four years ago. The 2015 coaching transition has been smoother because of the familiarity with the coaching staff and an entire season left to have a different ending.

While players focus on this season, they are left with what couldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an era that never lived up to the hype. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reach the level anybody wanted it to,â&#x20AC;? Scheelhaase said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we had a lot of good people here who cared about one another, and I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something people from that era always hang their hat on.â&#x20AC;?

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There was a sense of relief when Nathan Scheelhaase took a knee during the final seconds of the 2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl on New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve. Defensive lineman Craig Wilson grabbed a container of orange Gatorade and attempted to pour it over interim coach Vic Koenning â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he was half successful. The Illinois football sideline was filled with smiles, coaches shaking hands one last time and most players surrounding Koenning and exchanging hugs.

The moment was exciting, but it also marked the end of an era. Athletic Director Mike Thomas fired Ron Zook after his team won its first six games and lost the remaining six and hired Tim Beckman to be the next head coach.

With only a few hours left in 2011, Illinois was ready to enter a new era. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was an emotional year, so to end on that note felt great for all of us and for that coaching staff, we knew it was our last hurrah with them. There was just a lot of thanks, appreciation and gratitude amongst one another,â&#x20AC;? said Scheelhaase, now Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; running backs coach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When that game finished, we knew it was going to be something new moving forward. We were ready, as that game ended, for the next era of Illini football.â&#x20AC;?

That game featured two teams who had fired their head coaches a month before the game. Both Illinois and UCLA finished with a 6-6 records and underachieved. The Bruins fired Rick Neuheisel after four years and a 21-29 overall record, 13-23 in the Pac-12.

While both teams were starting from the same place, Illinois and UCLA were

about to head in different directions.

UCLAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solution was Jim Mora Jr., an experienced NFL coach with no college experience except a season spent as a graduate assistant at Washington. Mora led UCLA where fans and administration had wanted Neuheisel to lead them.

The Bruins finished with a 9-5 record and lost 27-24 to Stanford in the Pac12 Championship Game in Moraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first season. The team finished 10-3 in the next two respective seasons and is 3-0 this season, ranked No. 9 in the nation.

Mora also brought in good recruits.

His first recruiting class ranked third in the nation and he followed that with 20th and ninth ranked classes, respectively. The Bruins coach admitted that the transition from the pros isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the easiest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, going from the NFL back to college was easier then maybe sometimes it might be to go from college to the NFL,â&#x20AC;? Mora said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dealing with a certain type of verbage youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re using with younger players, and all of a sudden you have to be a little more careful with the older player. I think good coaches are good coaches and they adjust.â&#x20AC;?

While UCLA attained success with its new coach, Illinois struggled under Beckman. The new head coach didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a good first impression in his introductory press conference and his first season was tarnished with distractions. He was caught using smokeless tobacco on the sidelines at Wisconsin, a NCAA violation, and created laughable sideline moments â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he tripped over a referee during a game against Northwestern.

The major issue was the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2-10 record. Zook had been fired for a 6-6 record and his replacement couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

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One last respite before Big Ten play PETER BAILEYWELLS Sports editor

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llinois football is almost there: almost at the part of the schedule that matters.

The Illini have almost made it to Big Ten play.

Waiting for Big Ten play to come along feels like listening to “In The Air Tonight”

by Phil Collins.

You listen through the same lyrics for most of the song in order to make it to the drum solo, but the rest of the song is forgettable.

So far, the 2015 Illini season is like the rest of that song.

If Illinois had beaten North Carolina, the season would feel different. It really doesn’t matter all that much that the Illini stomped all over Kent State and Western Illinois. The loss to UNC makes those wins forgettable.

Saturday was horrible — in a vacuum — but it really

doesn’t matter a lot in terms of this season’s legacy. The game would have mattered only had the Illini won it.

Bill Cubit needs a signature win to remove the word interim from his title, and beating the Tar Heels might have been that win.

Luckily for him, Saturday wasn’t really a signature loss because it mirrored defeats like those the Illini have suffered several times in the last few years.

Three wins in Big Ten play — especially if one comes over a top-25 team — matter a whole lot more than a Power 5 nonconference loss. Three Big Ten wins might not be enough to guarantee Cubit holds on to the reins past December, but they’d be far more important than the UNC loss.

Saturday afternoon’s game against Middle Tennessee State is the reverse of the UNC game — it only matters if the Illini lose.

It’s definitely a nice respite for the Illini, but looking forward, next week’s matchup with the Cornhuskers looms a lot larger than the Blue

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back the droves of Illini football fans that have trickled away the last few seasons and for Cubit to remain the head coach past this season,

WEST DIVISION CONF. OVERALL

CONF. OVERALL PENN STATE INDIANA MICHIGAN STATE OHIO STATE MARYLAND MICHIGAN RUTGERS

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Illinois head coach Bill Cubit reacts to a play during the Illini’s 52-3 victory over Kent State on Sept. 5 at Memorial Stadium.

SEPT. 5 VS. KENT STATE — (W 52-3) SEPT. 12 VS. WESTERN ILLINOIS — (W 44-0) SEPT. 19 AT NORTH CAROLINA — (L 48-14) SEPT. 26 VS. MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE — 3 P.M. OCT. 3 VS. NEBRASKA — 2:30 P.M.

ILLINI SCHEDULE EAST DIVISION

Raiders do this weekend.

Also, with regards to the status of the “Stripe the Stadium” idea: Can this be postponed to homecoming?

Consider it: A homecoming game that is mostly — maybe even completely — full, a big-time Wisconsin team in town for Illini fans to scream and yell at and an Illinois team that would be fired up by a good home turnout.

It just doesn’t seem very realistic to expect students and local fans alone to stripe a 60,000-seat stadium for a 2-1 team playing a Conference USA opponent. Call me crazy, but that’s what I think.

It’s the right idea, but it might be the wrong week to try and pull it off.

That aside, Cubit and his team have talked a lot about winning back the loyalty of the fans. That’s respectable.

The pregame fan salute is respectable. The fi rst two wins were respectable.

Smacking around Middle Tennessee State would be respectable.

But for this team to bring

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respectable must become — at least in part — formidable.

The Illini can maintain respectability against Middle Tennessee, but once it

OCT. 10 AT IOWA — 11 A.M. OCT. 24 VS. WISCONSIN — 2:30 P.M. OCT. 31 AT PENN STATE — TBA NOV. 7 AT PURDUE — 11 A.M.

comes to Big Ten play, they need to get formidable.

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NOV. 14 VS. OHIO STATE — TBA NOV. 21 AT MINNESOTA — TBA NOV. 28 VS. NORTHWESTERN — TBA

MARYLAND @ WEST VIRGINIA 2:00 PM NORTH TEXAS @ IOWA 2:30 PM OHIO @ MINNESOTA 2:30 PM SAN DIEGO STATE @ PENN STATE 2:30 PM WESTERN MICHIGAN @ OHIO STATE 2:30 PM MIDDLE TENNESSEE @ ILLINOIS 3:00 PM BALL STATE @ NORTHWESTERN 7:00 PM HAWAII @ WISCONSIN 7:00 PM

THIS WEEK

BYU @ MICHIGAN 11 AM BOWLING GREEN @ PURDUE 11 AM CENTRAL MICHIGAN @ MICHIGAN STATE 11 AM KANSAS @ RUTGERS 11 AM SOUTHERN MISS @ NEBRASKA 11 AM INDIANA @ WAKE FOREST 11:30 AM

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ILLINOIS

MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE

JOSH FERGUSON

KEVIN BYARD

Ferguson had his first 100+ rushing game of the season last weekend in Chapel Hill. The senior back, who has shared part of the carrying duties with freshman Ke’Shawn Vaughn, has totaled 248 yards on the ground this season to go along with 73 with receiving. Ferguson is averaging close to 16 carries a game. He’s 13th on the Illinois career rushing list with 2,126.

Byard leads all active defensive backs in the NCAA with 327 career interception return yards. The all-time record is 501 by former Florida State University cornerback Terrell Buckley. Byard is averaging close to 6.5 tackles a game and has 16 career interceptions. The safety’s career high in tackles is nine, which he had in a game against Western Kentucky University.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE

ILLINOIS QB Wes Lunt 12 RB Josh Ferguson 6 WR-X Geronimo Allison 8 WE-T Marchie Murdock 16 WR-Z Malik Turner 11 TE Andrew Davis 89 LT Austin Schmidt 57 LG Chris Boles 55 C Joe Spencer 71 RG Ted Karras 69 RT Christian DiLauro 67

DEFENSE

DE Jihad Ward 17 NT Chunky Clements 11 DT Rob Bain 16 LEO Dawuane Smoot 91 WLB Mason Monheim 43 MLB T.J. Neal Jr. 52 STAR Eric Finney 14 CB V’Angelo Bentley 2 SS Taylor Barton 3 FS Clayton Fejedelem 20 CB Eaton Spence 27

ILLINOIS LEADERS PASSING Wes Lunt 59-for-97, 618 yards, 5 TD

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EYE ON THE ILLINI: ILLINOIS SECONDARY Strong Safety Taylor Barton has three interceptions on the year, which is tied for the most in the NCAA throughout the opening three weeks of the season.

Three interceptions is the most in a season by an Illini player since Terry Hawthorne did it in 2011. The Illini had three interceptions total by the end of last season.

LAST WEEK FOR MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE

OFFENSE

DEFENSE

QB Brent Stockstill 12 RB Jordan Parker 6 WR-X Eddie Batties 80 WE-T Richie James 87 WR-Z Rod Ducksworth 86 TE Terry Pettis 84 LT Chandler Brewer 73 LG Jaylen Hunter 54 C Josh Chester 63 RG Daniel Stephens 66 RT Maurquice Shakir 56

LE Steven Rhodes 49 LT Patrick McNeil 92 RT Shaquille Huff 51 RE Chris Hale 59 SLB Trey Wafford 8 MLB Cavellis Luckett 24 WLB T.T. Barber 38 RC Jeremy Cutrer 45 FS Xavier Walker 42 SS Kevin Byard 20 LC Mike Minter 47

MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE LEADERS PASSING Brent Stockstill 24-for-30, 891 yards, 9 TD

RUSHING

RUSHING

Josh Ferguson 47 carries, 248 yards, 3 TD Ke’Shawn Vaughn 39 carries, 147 yards, 1 TD

Jordan Parker 38 carries, 235 yards, 4 TD Shane Tucker 38 carries, 115 yards

RECEIVING Marchie Murdock 15 catches, 142 yards, 2 TD Geronimo Allison 14 catches, 234 yards, 1 TD Josh Ferguson 9 catches, 73 yards, 1 TD Desmond Cain 8 catches, 53 yards

HISTORY THE LAST TIME THE TEAMS MET...

Illinois has hosted Middle Tennessee State twice before in 1998 and 2000. Each time, the Illini came out on top.

DID YOU KNOW? Middle Tenneesse State has scored at least 70 points in each of its wins this season.

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Middle Tennessee State blew out Charlotte last week at home in a 73-14 victory. Brent Stockstill threw five touchdown passes, while Jordan Parker had three rushing scores in the effort. Charlotte did not help its cause as it turned the ball over seven times as junior cornerback Jeremy Cutrer came up with two picks.

EYE ON THE ENEMY: MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE’S QUARTERBACK Brent Stockstill, who is the son of head coach Rick Stockstill, has thrown for 891 yards in three games this year. The quarterback has a 70 percent completion rate to go along with nine touchdowns — he threw for four touchdowns last weekend against Charlotte. His longest pass was 76 yards, which also came in last weekend’s game.

RECEIVING Richie James 22 catches, 211 yards Ed Batties 17 catches, 271 yards, 5 TD Terry Pettis 8 catches, 238 yards, 2 TD Christian Collis 6 catches, 63 yards

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OCT. 17 VS. FIU — TBA

SEPT. 12 AT ALABAMA — (L

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SEPT. 26 AT ILLINOIS — 3 P.M.

NOV. 21 VS. NORTH TEXAS — 11

OCT. 3 VS. VANDERBILT — 6 P.M.

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OCT. 10 AT WESTERN KENTUCKY

NOV. 28 AT UTSA — 1:30 P.M.

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Illini’s opponent Cubit’s long-time friend

BY CHARLOTTE CARROLL STAFF WRITER

Illinois football head coach Bill Cubit and Middle Tennessee football head coach Rick Stockstill may have only shared seven months coaching together back in 1985, but those months set up a lifetime relationship.

At Central Florida, before Cubit left, the pair were close friends. Stockstill, who was unmarried, came over to the Cubit’s often for dinner and to play with then-toddler Ryan in the Cubit front yard.

The years have passed, but the two have kept in touch.

They’ve had the experience of coaching their kids as quarterbacks at the collegiate level. Bill coached Ryan from 2003-2006 at Western Michigan, and now Ryan works as Illinois’ quarterbacks coach. Stockstill is now coaching his son Brent, a redshirt freshman quarterback.

“He’s a great human being and a great football coach,” Cubit said.

Both have head coaching jobs once again and are

prepared to face each other Saturday in the teams’ third meeting and first since 2000.

Illinois (2-1) is coming off a 48-14 defeat to North Carolina and Middle Tennessee State (2-1) is coming off a 73-14 win against North Carolina-Charlotte.

The Illini will also be trying to “stripe the stadium,” urging fans to wear blue or orange specific to the section they sit in. The last time the University managed to stripe the stadium was in 2012.

The Illini are looking for a better passing game after struggling in its game against the Tar Heels. Quarterback Wes Lunt went 15-for-32 for 140 yards with one interception and no touchdowns. This was after he threw for 316 yards and one touchdown against Western Illinois.

The offense struggled at North Carolina, dropping nine passes.

But in terms of how he treats his receivers, Lunt said he tries to balance coaching styles.

“However coach Cubit and

coach Bellamy are treating them, I try to be the opposite, the mediator of it,” Lunt said.

“I think tough love is good to an extent because if we want to be a great football team, we need to make great plays.”

Lunt will have to be accurate this week — the Middle Tennessee State defense has already recorded seven interceptions this season.

The Illini defense will be defending a Blue Raider offense that has averaged 50 points a game and a quarterback in Stockstill that already has 891 passing yards and nine touchdowns this season.

With the head coaches’ close relationship, Cubit knows what his team is up against in his friend’s team and son.

“He’s a crafty, smart kid,” Cubit said. “He’s fun to watch, he’s got great grit and he just runs the whole show ... We’ve got our work cut out for us.”

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Illinois football team runs to the locker room at halftime of the game against Kent State on Sept. 5 at Memorial Statium.

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JOSH FERGUSON VS. ADDED PRESSURE After last week, the only bright spot was Ferguson, who ran for 133 yards and a touchdown. It is clear that unless Illinois magically fixes its passing, the offense will run through the Naperville native. Middle Tennessee notched six tackles for loss in its dominate win over Charlotte, and are facing an Illinois offensive line that did not impress last week. Ferguson will have to combine pass blocking and receiving out of the backfield as well as filling the rush-heavy role he filled last week. He may also want to take his foot off of the gas pedal, because the true test of who the Illini really are will come next week, when the team starts Big Ten play against Nebraska.

ILLINI DEFENSE VS. MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE RECEIVERS The Illini will be tested in the air on defense as well. The Illini failed to cover the variety of receivers that North Carolina offered last week. Whether it was getting a physical Quinshad Davis or Ryan Switzer with his speed, the Illini could not handle the Tar Heels’ depth.

Another similar situation presents itself this week. The Blue Raiders feature a 6-foot-5 tight end — Terry Pettis — who scorched Charlotte for four catches, 167 yards and two scores. Pettis

fills an Davis-like role. His wide receiver counterpart, Ed’Marques Batties, arguably had a better game with five catches for 120 yards and three scores. Batties stands at 6 feet, so he is more of the speedy type like Switzer was. This is the Illini’s chance to show that their defense can handle big opponents and that their strong performance from the first two games was not a fluke.

ILLINOIS PASSING VS. MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE SECONDARY The Illini had a lousy performance in the air, especially when they most needed it against North Carolina: Wes Lunt and Co. only got 140 yards through the air. The absence of Mikey Dudek is truly showing, with receivers dropping passes and Lunt making poor decisions throughout the game. The Blue Raiders have had a solid secondary, currently tied for the most defensive touchdowns with three and interceptions with seven. The Blue Raiders secondary is led by Jeremy Cutrer, who was named Conference USA defensive player of the week after having two interceptions, two passes defended and recovering a fumble against Charlotte. Cutrer was the No. 2 safety prospect coming out of junior college before he joined Middle Tennessee State. This will be a good test for the Illini receivers to see if they can improve and be like Mike.

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Bottom: Wes Lunt prepares for the snap against Western Illinois.

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

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Wheelchair team turns to Gruss

Among absences, Hiltzik steps up

BY LUCAS WRIGHT STAFF WRITER

The Illinois men’s tennis team is set to open its fall season this weekend at Texas A&M, but a few big names are absent from the lineup.

Seniors Jared Hiltzik and Brian Page, along with sophomore Aleks Vukic, will not be competing in College Station, Texas, and will most likely not be around until the spring season.

Each of the three will be taking the fall season off from college and will be competing in professional tournaments.

Only Hiltzik has stayed open to the possibility of joining the team at some point this semester.

Missing such vital parts to the team, the rest of the Illini will now have a chance to step up and lead the team.

One of those players will be Alex Jesse, the redshirt junior out of Mequon, Wisconsin. Jesse said he is up for the challenge and he has worked throughout the semester on getting to this point.

“I was kind of struggling coming in here for the fall with my mentality and attitude on the court,” Jesse said.

“This week I feel like I’ve been doing a lot better with how I walk out on the court and handle myself out there.”

Sophomore Aron Hiltzik

will also try to make his name throughout the fall season.

Hiltzik is coming off a stellar freshman season where he was a first-team All-Big Ten selection. He has caught the eye of the NCAA, coming into the season ranked in the top 50 of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division I preseason rankings.

But Aron plans to aim somewhat higher than his top-50 ranking.

“Last year I had a goal, and my goal is to be an All-American,” Aron said. “It was kind of tough to get ranked high while playing in the three and four spot, so I’m just glad to be ranked high, and now I’ll be in the main draw of AllAmericans this year.”

Another interesting aspect of this weekend will be how the Illini freshmen perform in their first event.

Asher Hirsch and Pengxuan Jiang may be rookies, but according to Hirsch, he thinks they are ready to step up and play at the collegiate level.

“I’m pretty excited to get my first college matches in because I’ve put a lot of work in so far,” Hirsch said. “I’m pretty confident because we’ve been working hard and that is just building upon the confidence for us.”

The Illini will have their first chance of the season to make their mark this week-

BY THOMAS POLCYN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Illinois’ Aron Hiltzik runs for the ball during the tennis game vs. Ohio State at Atkins Tennis Center on March 29. end at Texas A&M during the Conference Challenge, where, according to head coach Brad Dancer, Illinois will face some high quality opponents.

“Everybody will be good there,” Dancer said.

“It is going to be a strong tournament.”

Most players on the team have not competed for over a month, so Dancer says he is using this event to gauge where his team is.

“I’m sure we will be growing a lot on day one,” Dancer said. “We’ll fight and we’ll compete, and then we’ll come out with a much better idea of where we are with our guys.”

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Illinois vs Texas A&M When/where: Friday-Sunday, College Station, Texas Quick note: Jared Hiltzik, Brian Page and Aleks Vukic won’t compete Hidden stat: Aron Hiltzik was a first-team All-Big Ten selection last season

When Shelby Gruss first sat in a wheelchair after a major snowboarding accident at age 18, she thought her career with the game she loved had ended.

But four years later, she has redirected her passion for basketball into a position as the captain of the Illinois women’s wheelchair basketball team. The junior plays the 1.5 position, acting as a guard/ forward combination for the Illini.

“I don’t bring the ball down a lot, but my role isn’t to get in the middle. My role is to get the forwards in the middle,” Gruss said.

Her basketball career began when she was 5 years old, and though it changed after her accident, Gruss would not let the accident hold her back from doing what she loves.

She took a year off from basketball after getting hurt but rejuvenated her career when she was 20 years old: She began playing for a team in her hometown of Ossain, Indiana.

“I’ve always been a really competitive person, and basketball was the love of my life before I got hurt,” Gruss said.

“The first year I didn’t play because I was planning on moving away to college and not coming (to Illinois). When I decided I wasn’t moving away

yet, I played for a home team and fell in love with it. I saw the opportunity here and naturally, decided to come play (at Illinois).”

Gruss said she enjoys all aspects of the game, but her favorite is unique to wheelchair basketball and is called “sealing,” which is similar to setting a pick.

“Sealing is awesome,” Gruss said. “You get that big player in, and nobody can touch them because you get everybody else out of the way.

I think that’s amazing.”

As captain, she is a leader of the team, but Gruss looks up to several of her teammates, specifically senior Gail Gaeng.

“She always works her hardest and tries to get the best of every situation,” Gruss said.

“She is a great leader and definitely someone that I aspire to play like.”

Out of all things that basketball has brought Gruss, her favorite is simply enjoying time with her teammates.

“After a tournament when we do well everyone is so close,” she said. “I see it (in practice) every day. Everybody has each other’s backs.”

Gruss will lead her team in its season-opening games on Oct. 29 at the Wheelchair Basketball Academy Tournament in Toronto.

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Miller and Singhsumalee boost golf team’s chemistry

BY RYAN WILSON

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Stephanie Miller, a junior on the Illinois women’s golf team, joked about dumping dried Korean squid down teammate Bing Singhsumalee’s bag Tuesday.

“It’ll smell like fish for a while,” Miller said, jokingly. “Yum!” It’s not hard to notice Singhsumalee and Miller’s friendship, which started when the two were playing junior golf before high school. The two met at the World UTeam Challenge, which used to be organized by Singhsumalee’s dad, Pete. Miller played in the tournament, while Singhsumalee, who is two years younger, watched the action.

Then, as they got older,

Singhsumalee, a Naperville native, and Miller, of Elgin, played together in junior and high school golf tournaments.

“It helped create a nice friendship,” Miller said.

But when it was time for college, Miller approximated that she was 75 percent of the reason why Singhsumalee chose to attend Illinois.

“There, you’ve got a percentage,” Miller said, laughing. “I’d like to believe its true, but who knows?”

Singhsumalee said she chose the U of I for several different reasons — Miller was one of them.

Miller and Singhsumalee talk about their similar personalities and humor when asked about their

noticeable friendship. for one or two players to get “I called her my baby left out,” sophomore Dana Bing,” Miller said.

Gattone said. “We’ve never The two eat, practice, really had that.”

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We’ve never really had that.”

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mates disrupted her concentration to the point of laughter.

Singhsumalee, a freshman, said she has not had much time to play jokes on Miller.

They all take golf seriously. They all push each other to succeed.

“It’s nice, I guess,” Singhsumalee said with a chuckle when asked about being on the same team with Miller. “I love her. She is awesome.”

The two have friendly competitions at practice when they work on their short games.

Singhsumalee said they aren’t able to finish their competitions due to other responsibilities, but added that the pair tie most of the time.

The Illini finished in the top-10 of their first two competitions of the season. Singhsumalee and Miller total season scores are separated by only two strokes. Singhsumalee shot 6-under in the first round of the Minnesota Invitational, tying the lowest score in Illinois history in her first round of college golf.

Miller watched Singhsumalee during breaks.

When Miller couldn’t watch, her dad, Alan, ran back and forth between the two, updating his daughter on Singhsumalee’s performance.

“She’s like another daughter to him,” Miller said.

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Many Arabs and anti-Israel activists claim Palestinians are the true indigenous people of the Holy Land, comparing their plight to that of Native Americans. Yet the ethnogenesis of the Jewish people—Hebrew language, Torah, Jewish religion, culture and self-identity—began in Palestine more than 1,800 years before Arabs arrived.

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lived in an area for centuries, neither can Palestinian Arabs. As for other criteria of indigeneity, Palestinian Deputy of Jerusalem Affairs Salwa Palestinians speak Arabic, which is not a language Habib recently asserted that the “Palestinian people specific to Palestine, nor had they identified as has been present in Jerusalem for thousands of years Palestinians before Egypt’s President Nasser so . . . centuries before the Jewish religion.” Such dubbed them in 1964. In reality, there is no ethnic attempts to delegitimize Israel’s connection to the difference between Palestinian Arabs, Syrians and Holy Land disregard abundant archaeological, Jordanians. Likewise, Palestinians have no culture historical and genealogical evidence that confirms a peculiar to Palestine, nor do they have strong continuous Jewish presence in Palestine dating back religious ties to it. The Koran, for example, never to the Hebrews’ return from Egypt, circa 1200 BCE. mentions Jerusalem, which has been the capital of By contrast, Arabs first arrived in Palestine around the Holy Land for several 640 CE, first became a thousand years. Finally, dominant population The Jews’ return to Palestine despite claims by some there in the twelfth of a century and first called reflects an indigenous people’s self- Palestinians relationship to Canaanites, themselves Palestinians determination to create a state on there is no genealogical or only in 1964. genetic evidence The U.N. defines an the site of its ancestral kingdom. connecting Arabs to indigenous people as extinct Biblical peoples. having a) continuously Are Jews indigenous to Palestine? The ancient occupied ancestral lands, b) common ancestry with Jewish connection to Palestine is confirmed in the original occupants, c) a distinct common culture, d) Jewish Bible, the Christian Gospels and the Koran, as a distinct language, e) a religion that emphasizes well as by countless Jewish antiquities and copious spiritual ties to the land, and f) a genetic connection scholarly research. Genetic studies show that today’s to a specific people.

Jews—whether the Diaspora cast them to Europe, Are Palestinian Arabs indigenous? Comparisons of North America, Africa or other parts of the Middle Palestinians to indigenous Native Americans fall East—are related genealogically to Jews of Biblical short, as do claims that Palestinians are indigenous times. Jews also have a distinct language, culture and to the Holy Land. Unlike American Native People, religion that are linked inextricably to Palestine.

Palestinian Arabs were not the aboriginal nor ever Indeed, for thousands of years Jewish liturgy has the sole inhabitants of this land. In addition, the expressed the yearning of Jews to return to the land population of Native Americans after white conquest of Israel: “Next year in Jerusalem” is uttered by every was decimated by massacre and disease, while the observant Jew at Passover, and Jerusalem itself is a Palestinian population has thrived and expanded major character in the Torah, cited more than 600 dramatically over the past century. Finally, Native times. Finally, of course, like Native Americans, Jews Americans were never offered a state of their own, were dispossessed of their ancient lands—by the whereas Palestinian Arabs have been offered a state Romans, Christian Crusaders, Muslims, Babylonians many times, starting in 1947, but have refused these and Ottomans. Surely just because Jews were offers in favor of futile attempts for nearly 70 years to deprived of their aboriginal lands doesn’t mean they expel the Jews. have no claim to them. Rather than colonialism, of Arabs began to dominate the Holy Land when they which Israel is accused by anti-Zionists, the Jews’ arrived as Muslim conquerors in 1187 CE, especially return to Palestine actually reflects an indigenous during Mamluk rule, from 1260-1516 CE. However, people’s self-determination to create a state on the just as white colonists in the Americas cannot call site of its ancestral kingdom. themselves indigenous people simply because they There’s no doubt that Jews are the legitimate indigenous people of Palestine. That’s not, however, to deny Palestinian hopes for a sovereign state. In fact, Israel has many times offered to support such a state, if only Palestinians would abandon their jihad against Israel’s legitimacy and accept the right of the Jewish people to their own state.

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Puerto Rico first up on womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis schedule

BY EMMA MCGOWEN STAFF WRITER

The Illinois womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis team left for Puerto Rico on Wednesday to open its season at the Puerto Rico Invitational, hosted by the University of Georgia.

The tournament will start Friday, September 25, and last until Sunday, Sept. 27.

The Illini will face three teams over the weekend, including the University of Miami, Mercer University, and the host of the invitational, the University of Georgia. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll face each team in both singles and doubles, but

wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play the same team back-to-back.

While the team waits for the tournament to start, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have practice Wednesday and Thursday, when junior Louise Kwong said theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll focus a lot on match play, making sure to get a lot of points in, along with practicing doubles.

Even with three talented freshmen new to the team and only one week of full team practice under the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belt, the Illini havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t felt any issues with team chemistry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this year is by far one of the better years,â&#x20AC;? Kwong said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve meshed really well and even though weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve only had one week of team training, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been training for a month (outside of team practices).â&#x20AC;?

This feeling seems to be mutual throughout the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The freshmen mesh really well with everyone,â&#x20AC;? sophomore Grace Tapak said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more vocal (on the court), and everyone supports each other, and when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing running, the freshman are cheering everyone on. In the past it would be the upperclassman cheering on the freshman, but the fresh-

men are really stepping up now.â&#x20AC;?

Head coach Evan Clark likes what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seen so far, agreeing that the chemistry among the team is good and the girls are competitive with each other during matches in practice. He said the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s depth presents a good problem for him â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he wants to make sure each of the nine players traveling receives playing time. Junior Alexis Casati is the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sole returning All-Big Ten player â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re figuring out our line-up and getting people in that need matches,â&#x20AC;?

Clark said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind

of our problem this year; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got so much depth, especially at the bottom.

There are a lot of people fighting for spots.â&#x20AC;?

In the field of three teams, Clark said Georgia and Miami will provide tough competition because they consistently rank among the top teams in their respective conferences. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our competitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be tough this weekend,â&#x20AC;? said Clark. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of what we need. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re tired of playing each other and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready to see some new faces.â&#x20AC;?

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Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Louise Kwong attempts to return the ball during the match against UIC at Atkins Tennis Center on Jan. 25.

Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross country shuffling lineups for Augustana Invite

BY WILL MOST CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Throughout the month of September, Illinois menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head cross country coach Jake Stewart has run a plethora of different lineups, trying out new runners, veterans and transfers alike in hopes of finding a perfect mix.

This Friday, The Brissman-Lundeen Invite in Rock Island, Illinois, will be the last place to try out radically different lineups with the fastest runners not competing.

From this point on, the meets get tougher and

the times get faster, and the Illini will match the increase in competition with their full-strength lineups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew this would be an opportunity for some of the guys who we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t project being in the top seven in Louisville to get another competitive race in,â&#x20AC;? Stewart said.

The one exception to Stewartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s description of the lineup is Ian Barnett, the Illini senior coming off an injury. Barnett was regularly a top finisher for Illinois last year and was hoping to

run earlier in the year at the Spartan Invite, but a sore glute pushed his season debut until this week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just going to try to open up a little bit and get that cross country race mentality going,â&#x20AC;?

Barnett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to go for the win, and I feel that as a team we can go for the win as well.â&#x20AC;?

With Barnett likely leading the charge for the Illini in the Brissman-Lundeen Invite, his performance is critical in figuring out just who Illinois will be running as its season starts buckling down in late October.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a guy who likes to have a race or two under his belt before he enters the primary portions of his season,â&#x20AC;?

Stewart said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He likes to have a race to get back into a routine and a competitive environment.â&#x20AC;?

Barnett isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only player of consequence in Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meet. While every Illini runner will be critical, fellow senior Jereme Atchison is an especially intriguing member, according to Stewart.

Atchison has an injury-plagued past, but in last Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meet, he

ran at a pace that pleased both himself and Stewart. This Friday, Atchison looks to put his rough past behind him and add to the momentum that he garnered in East Lansing.

The Illini wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be racing against any slouches, even though Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s invite wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feature as many big names as previous meets. The eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s host, Augustana College, has placed first in its past two events, and almost ran a perfect meet Sept.

4, having runners place first, second, third, fifth and sixth.

Brissman-Lundeen Invite

Hidden stat: Augustana College, the Inviteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s host, nearly ran a perfect race at the Western Illinois Invitational with runners placing first, second, third, fifth and sixth.

When/where: Friday at 5:45 p.m., Rock Island, Ill. Quick notes: Ian Barnett will return to competition after sitting out with a sore glute.

Beyond that, Illinois will find itself pitted against a wide array of smaller schools from across the Midwest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just want the guys to compete hard and race well.â&#x20AC;? Stewart said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our main concerns and main objectives our what we are doing to build towards the end of October early November.â&#x20AC;?

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Illinois womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross country prepares for Roy Griak Invitational seniors Britten Petrey and Alyssa Schneider.

Illini head coach Scott Jones is said he is aware of the strong competition his team will face this weekend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a competitive field,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Michigan State is one that definitely stands out. They are a proud program and one that does things the right way.â&#x20AC;?

Michigan State, the reigning Big Ten champions, won the Roy Griak Invitational last year.

Finishing 18 out of 35 teams at the invite last season, Schneider knows

BY MICHAEL GASICK CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross country team heads to Minneapolis Saturday to run the Roy Griak Invitational.

It will be the Illiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third race of the season. Thus far, the team finished first out of the three teams at the Illini Open, and then came in third out of nine teams at the ISU Invitational.

Illinois will run sophomores Audrey Blazek and Denise Branch, juniors Valerie Bobart, Hanna Winter and Kim Seger, along with

that the team needs to make improvements and adjustments going into the race this time around. She finished 58 out of 390 runners at last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race, running a time of 22:30. Schneider hopes to improve on her place and time this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really just want a strong team performance, stronger than last week, stronger than last year,â&#x20AC;? Schneider said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think any of us were pleased with last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results.â&#x20AC;?

Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s invite was the first time the team saw the course. The

mild temperatures and low humidity forecasted for Minneapolis on Saturday.

The team has been busy at practices preparing for the challenging, hilly course by running at its home course. The University of Illinois Arboretum, the Illiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home course, has a few hills of which the team can practice to prepare for the upcoming meet.

Jones wants his team to build up stamina to get through the most difficult parts of the course that have hills. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to use our

weather was hot and humid, which made for unfavorable conditions for the runners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was an eye-opening experience for us,â&#x20AC;?

Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we handled the overall competitive situation very well.â&#x20AC;?

Jones noted that the team had come off a couple of strong meets to start the 2014 season and was simply overwhelmed with the strong competition and uncomfortable weather conditions. This year, the weather looks much more favorable with

confidence from training,â&#x20AC;? Schneider said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know the course is known for its hills.â&#x20AC;?

Jones has confidence in his team going into the race and hopes his team can rebound strong after last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to work together with our teammates to get us through some of the more challenging portions,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is something to help us run in a more disciplined fashion than last year.â&#x20AC;?

Roy Griak Invitational When/where: Saturday, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Quick note: Illinois raced in the Roy Griak Invitational for the first time last season Hidden stat: Reigning Big Ten champion Michigan State won the invite last season

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Maryland and Rutgers volleyball out for revenge

BY ELI SCHWADRON STAFF WRITER

Rutgers and Maryland are out for revenge.

Illinois swept Maryland and Rutgers at Huff Hall in the opening two matches of conference play last season.

Double-doubles from outside hitter Jocelynn Birks (15 kills, 10 digs, .444 hitting percentage) and setter Alexis Viliunas (14 assists.

10 digs) spearheaded a victory against the Terrapins on Sept. 26, 2014. A day later, Birks posted 12 kills, seven digs and a .360 hitting percentage to lead the Illini over the Scarlet Knights.

Now, the No. 9 Illini volleyball team (9-2) travel to College Park, Maryland, to play the Terrapins (10-4) on Friday at 6 p.m. Illinois will then make the trip to New Brunswick, New Jersey, to face Rutgers (3-9) at 6 p.m.

Saturday.

Illinois head coach Kevin Hambly said the new-look Terps boast talented youngsters that his team will have to keep in check. Hambly said Maryland head coach Steve Aird — who helped Penn State win a championship last season as an assistant – did a great job of securing recruits who are ready to contribute immediately. 6-foot-1 outside hitter

Liz Twilley and her teamleading 147 kills are at the top of that list of players to contain. Redshirt senior and fellow outside hitter Adreené Elliot is another Terrapin that could potentially cause problems for the Illini defense.

But Illinois’ defense has been stalwart thus far — especially in last weekend’s Sun Devil Invitational, which included a 25-7 second set against Texas Southern. The victory over the Tigers marked the second time this season the Illini held an opponent to fewer than 10 points in a set.

The other time their defense met that feat came on Sept.

12, 2015 in a 25-9 second set against South Dakota State.

Though Hambly’s hightempo offense can be explosive at times, he has stressed the importance of defense heading into Big Ten play.

“We start to pick the lock defensively, and hopefully we start to shut teams down,” he said.

Starting libero Brandi Donnelly is the heart of Hambly’s defense. The fivefoot-eight sophomore from Williamsville, Illinois, has 169 digs through 37 sets played for a tremendous 4.57 digs per set.

Illinois volleyball vs.

Maryland & Rutgers When: Friday: Illinois at Maryland 6 p.m.

Saturday: Illinois at Rutgers 6 p.m.

TV/Radio: Big Ten Network/WDWS 1400 (at Maryland), WDWS 1400 (at Rutgers) Quick Notes: Illinois went 2-1 in last On the offensive side, junior Katie Stadick has established herself as one of the premiere middle blockers in the nation. Through 11 matches, Stadick has 103 kills and 21 errors for a .404 hitting percentage — good for 42nd at any position in the country. She won tournament MVP at the Shocker Classic two weeks ago and continued her solid play in Tempe, Arizona this past weekend.

After Illinois’ meeting with Maryland, the team will take on a less-talented Rutgers squad. Like the Terps, the Scarlet Knights

Illinois hockey prepares to face off against Oklahoma

Hidden Stat: Illinois’ junior middle blocker Katie Stadick has a .404 hitting percentage, good for 42nd in the nation.

Stadick has the thirdmost kills on the team with 103, and she won tournament MVP at the Shocker Classic earlier this year. have lost four of their last five matches. But Birks is adamant that the team must take every opponent seriously — a recurring theme for Illinois in this stillyoung season.

“All the (Big Ten) teams have a lot of fight and they’re all scrappy, and that’s kinda how we are,” Birks said.

Friday’s match will be the first taste of Big Ten play for Illini freshmen Ali Bastianelli, Beth Prince and Jordyn Poulter. According to Birks, they’re ready for the challenge.

“They’ve been pretty prepared since day one,” she

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Illinois’ Brandi Donnelly serves the ball during the game vs Louisville at Huff Hall on Friday, Aug. 28. said. “They know we need to focus on us more than focus on what (the other teams) are doing.”

Stadick echoed her teammate’s statement regarding the three freshmen before offering her own advice.

“I would tell them to

keep grinding out points and working hard in the gym and practice because it’s only gonna help in the long run.”

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Illinois vs. Rutgers When: Thursday, 7 p.m., Illinois Soccer Stadium Quick notes: Rutgers is ranked No. 2 in the nation

Golaie battle highlights team’s road trip

Hidden stat: Illinois lost 2-1 last year to Rutgers in New Jersey

BY COLE HENKE STAFF WRITER

When Illinois hockey plays Oklahoma, bad memories tend to resurface with the veteran Illini.

According to junior captain Austin Zima, whenever the team talks about the Sooners, the conversation always goes back to the 2014 ACHA tournament, when the Sooners eliminated the Illini.

“They ground us into a pulp,” Zima said. “They just wore us down and then beat us into the ground. It was bad.”

The wounds from that game have not healed, and Zima said that the Illini (2-0) look forward to visiting the Sooners (1-1) this weekend.

The Sooners are notorious for having big, physical teams. The Illini will count on their speed to combat the Sooners’ size.

Head coach Nick Fabbrini said the Sooners run a pro-style offense, something that the Illini have yet to face this year. This means the Sooners are going to try to get the puck deep and use their size in front of the goal.

Combating this will require a full team effort from the Illini in the defensive zone.

“I feel like we played well on both sides of the puck,” forward Eric Cruickshank said. “Our offense was getting back and helping in the defensive zones.”

The Sooners play on a standard NHL-size rink, and with their size, they like to take up a lot of space on the ice. Zima said that does not stop them from picking up the pace of the game whenever they feel like it.

“We really just need to keep our feet moving the entire time,” Zima said. “We

weekend’s Sun Devil Invitational. Maryland is 10-4 overall but has lost four of its last five.

Illinois vs. Maryland When: Sunday, 1 p.m., Illinois Soccer Stadium Quick notes: The first meeting ended with a 1-1 draw in doubleovertime

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Illinois’ Joe Olen looks for somebody to pass the puck to during the Ohio hockey game at the Ice Arena on Friday, Oct. 24. may be considered a smaller team, but we can be faster on the ice.”

Zima said the team can not afford to let the Sooners’ size take them out of their rhythm. It will be important to get the puck to the most efficient areas.

The Sooners had two players who went to Europe last year for the World University games — right wing Jordan Greenberg and defenseman Mico Solorzano — but Fabbrini doesn’t consider those two to be Oklahoma’s best players. Both Zima and Fabbrini agreed that Sooners defenseman Cory Ramsey concerns them the most. “(Ramsey) is a defender, but he is really aggressive and loves to attack on offense,” Zima said. “With a team that gets the puck deep like Oklahoma, it is easy to forget about the guys coming from the outside. That’s when he is most dangerous.”

The Illini may be eager to take on the Sooners, but the coaching staff has yet to decide who will be starting in goal. Fabbrini said the staff would decide at practice this week after evaluat-

Illinois vs. Oklahoma Where: Norman, Oklahoma When: Friday, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, 4 p.m.

Quick Note: Illinois was eliminated by Oklahoma in the 2014 ACHA tournament Hidden stat: Eric Cruickshank leads the Illini in scoring with three goals ing the play of Joe Olen, Zev Grumet-Morris and David Heflin.

Illinois is looking at these games as its first real test of the early season.

“It was nice to get those wins last weekend,” Zima said. “But we know that was also the easiest weekend we will have all season. It only gets tougher from here.”

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Hidden stat: This is the first time the Illini are hosting Maryland

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Illinois defender Morgan Maroney receives a pass during the game against TCU on August 28.

Woman’s soccer team set for first home conference test

BY JON JOFFE STAFF WRITER

The Illinois soccer team is returning home to play it’s next set of Big Ten games Thursday and Sunday.

The Illini failed to win a game when they began conference play last weekend against Indiana and Purdue, but the feeling of this week’s matches should be a bit different.

Janet Rayfield and company are taking on Rutgers followed by Maryland in what will be the first ever games between the teams in Champaign.

No. 2 Rutgers should prove to be the toughest test to date for the Illini.

The Scarlet Knights are undefeated on the season at 8-0 (1-0 Big Ten).

While Rutgers has spread out its 10 goals this season, the team’s defensive play has been no less than perfect thus far.

Rutgers has not allowed a goal so far in 2015, shutting out all eight of its pre-

vious opponents — including Maryland in its last match.

Maryland should pan out to be a much easier task for the Illini, as the Terrapins currently sit near the bottom of the Big Ten standings with a 5-4 record (0-1 Big Ten).

The Illini were scoring in bunches early on in the season, with 13 goals in their first four games.

Since then – in Illinois’ last five matches – four goals have been scored.

While the defense has been consistent for the Illini, the team needs to get going offensively if they want to be the first team this season to score against Rutgers.

A tough task, no doubt, for the Illini, but Rayfield thinks her team can get it done.

“The thing that has been consistent is our ability to create chances,” Rayfield said.

She said if her team continues to create chances and plug away at the goalie, good things will happen.

As for Rutgers’ ranking,

Rayfield says her team is not worried about that.

“The goal is that we keep the excitement the same because whether they are ranked second in the country or are not in the national rankings, every Big Ten team is good,” Rayfield said.

“I think that was why we really had to have the wakeup call this past weekend.”

While Rayfield is telling her team to ignore the ranking and show up to play, she said that the same intensity and effort is required to beat Maryland.

The coach applauded the Big Ten conference as a whole.

“Whether it’s Rutgers or any other team in the Big Ten, if it says Big Ten team, you better bring your A-game,” Rayfield said. “Rutgers (and Maryland) are Big Ten teams and they’re coming to our place, so we gotta bring our A-game.”

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